* I will make.
After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after
the destruction of Jerusalem, many of the Edomites, during the
Babylonian captivity, being driven from their ancient
habitation by the Nabatheans, seized upon the south-western
part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus,
and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion;
and at last became either incorporated with that nation, or
swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs, so that the
very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first
century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their
cities, even Bozra and Petra, totally demolished and in ruins.
* perpetual.
4 25:13 Jer 49:17,18 Zep 2:9 Mal 1:3,4
* and ye.
6:7 7:4,9 36:11
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